#dio

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#characters #circumstances #drama #engage #enlightened

Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#different #films #go #got #i

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#box #box office #except #films #i

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be. ↗

— Trey Parker

#hollywood #how #idiots #need #ones

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#bathtub #before #between #caught #fell

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#beyond #either #established #fangs #fixes

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#i #i am #just #leave #more

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#between #difference #enthusiasm #magic #mediocrity

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. ↗

— Sean Penn

#being ignored #celebrated #discouraged #ignored #lot

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. ↗

— William Penn

#how #know #learning #live #moderns